Principal or Sr. Principal Software Engineer - Embedded
About The Position
Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems is looking to add a Principal or a Sr. Principal Embedded Software Engineer to join their team. This position will be sourced out of the Software Engineering organization in Rancho Bernardo, CA. In this role, you will work in an embedded technology environment to develop, integrate, and test software working with real-time operating systems for use in flight and mission critical systems, with a particular focus on hardware/software integration and modeling and simulation software development. You will work with multi-disciplinary teams, such as with Systems Engineering, Real-time & Embedded Software, Guidance, Navigation & Control Engineering, DevSecOps, and Systems Test. In an Agile software development environment, candidates will work on software supporting various systems in all phases of the software development lifecycle including requirements, design, development, integration, and test. The position requires working knowledge of the full development life-cycle processes that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints. Candidates must exhibit strong leadership characteristics in coordinating with multiple teams and managing tasks.
Requirements
- Principal: Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline and 5 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master’s degree in a STEM discipline and 3 years of related engineering experience OR a PhD degree in a STEM discipline and 1 years of related engineering experience
- Sr. Principal: Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline and 8 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master’s degree in a STEM discipline and 6 years of related engineering experience OR a PhD degree in a STEM discipline and 4 years of related engineering experience
- Experience with safety-critical embedded real time software.
- Experience with developing software and scripts in C/C++, and Python.
- Experience with software development methodologies and frameworks such as waterfall and / or Agile for all phases of the software development life cycle.
- Experience with software change control, change management, and CI/CD tools such as: Atlassian tool suite, GitHub, GitLab, AND/OR Jenkins.
- Experience with software architecture, design, implementation, integration, debugging, and testing safety-critical embedded real time software written in C/C++ running on real-time operating systems such as: VxWorks, Integrity, AND/OR Real Time Embedded Linux.
- Ability to obtain and/or transfer and maintain the final adjudicated government Top -Secret clearance, and any program access(es) required for the position within a reasonable period of time.
- U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with UAV route planning, routing algorithms or other geometrically based algorithms.
- Familiarity with static code analysis tools such as: Coverity, SonarQube, and Fortify.
- Familiarity with using MATLAB
- Previous experience with existing avionic system
- Recent experience and proficiency with scripting languages such as Python, MATLAB, JavaScript, AND/OR Bash.
- Recent experience and proficiency with multi-threaded programming in C/C++ for real time systems.
- Demonstrated leadership, excellent teamwork, and excellent oral and written communication.
- Experience with SOAP and Java services.
- Current Special Program Access
Responsibilities
- Design, development, maintenance, and execution of automated software tests for qualification of embedded software products
- Experienced in working in a lab environment on an Agile project
- Knowledge of, and experience working in, all phases for the Software Development Lifecycle
- Analyze requirements allocated to computer software configuration items (CSCI).
- Develop detailed, clear, and concise technical documentation.
- Work with software developers and other engineers, as needed, to help diagnose and identify the root cause of problems found during software installation, integration, acceptance test, and operational events.
- Submit detailed problem reports for errors found.
- Collaborate closely with system engineers, hardware designers, integration/test engineers, and program leadership.
Benefits
- Relocation assistance may be available
- health insurance coverage
- life and disability insurance
- savings plan
- Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
- overtime
- shift differential
- discretionary bonus
- Annual bonuses
- Long Term Incentives (for VP or Director positions)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
